SYDNEY. Melbourne City overcomes Western Sydney Wanderers 3-1. Melbourne City was just to good to grab a decisive 3-0 lead with M. Leckie (36′), M. Leckie (43′) and F. Berenguer (64′). Western Sydney Wanderers reduced the distance with a penalty (80′) by D. Petratos, but there was not much to do for them. Western Sydney Wanderers was vastly superior in terms of ball possession (65%).​

J. Maclaren didn’t score a penalty (61′) for Melbourne City.​

The match was played at the Commbank Stadium stadium in Sydney on Friday and it started at 7:45 pm local time. The referee was Alex King with the assistance of Andrew Lindsay and Lance Greenshields. The 4th official was Tim Danaskos. The weather was cloudy. The temperature was pleasant at 21.2 degrees Celsius or 70.23 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 75%.​

Match Statistics​

Ball possession

Western Sydney Wanderers had a superior ball possession 65% while Melbourne City was struggling with a 35% ball possession.

Attitude and shots

Western Sydney Wanderers was putting more pressure with 33 dangerous attacks and 12 shots of which 3 were on target. Even so, Melbourne City was able to find the solution to win this match.​

Western Sydney Wanderers shot 12 times, 3 on target, 9 off target. Regarding the opposition, Melbourne City shot 11 times, 5 on target, 6 off target.

Cards

None of the teams received any yellow card.

Standings

After this encounter, Western Sydney Wanderers will stay with 9 points to hold in the 10th place. Regarding the opposition, Melbourne City will have 19 points to hold in the 2nd place.

Next matches

In the next match in the A-League, Western Sydney Wanderers will play away with Wellington Phoenix on the 23rd of April with a 13-10 head to head in favor of Western Sydney Wanderers (5 draws).

Melbourne City will host Adelaide United on the 15th of February with a 12-12 head to head record.

Western Sydney Wanderers – Formation

Western Sydney Wanderers adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up (4-2-3-1).

The manager Marko Ante Rudan decided to play with the following team: Tomas Mejías (6.1), Thomas Kevin Aquilina (5.4), Ziggy Gordon (6.4), Mark Natta (6.1), Adama Traoré (6.2), Steven Ugarkovic (6.7), Keanu Baccus (7.1), Keijiro Ogawa (6.0), James Troisi (6.3), Ramy Najjarine (6.6) and Dimitri Petratos (7.1).

The home team had on the bench: Terry Antonis (6.8), Jordi Swibel (6.3), Daniel Wilmering, Phillip Cancar, Daniel Margush, Bernie Ibini Isei (6.8) and Alessandro Lopane (6.5).

Substitutions

Western Sydney Wanderers made 5 changes: S. Ugarkovic for T. Antonis (71′), R. Najjarine for B. Ibini-Isei (71′), K. Ogawa for A. Lopane (72′), J. Troisi for J. Swibel (73′) and M. Natta for P. Cancar (88′).

Best player: Dimitri Petratos​

The player that probably impressed the most for Western Sydney Wanderers was Dimitri Petratos.

His rating is (7.1) with 1 goal, 21 passes (85% accurate) and 2 key passes. He performed 3 crosses.

Melbourne City – Formation

Also Melbourne City adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up (4-2-3-1).

Patrick Kisnorbo played with: Tom Glover (6.7), Carl Jenkinson (7.3), Rostyn Griffiths (6.5), Curtis Good (6.2), Scott Jamieson (7.6), Aiden O’Neill (7.2), Conor Metcalfe (7.4), Andrew Nabbout (6.6), Florin Berenguer (7.7), Mathew Leckie (9.0) and Jamie MacLaren (5.8).

The following players were sitting on the bench: Marco Tilio (6.4), Kerrin Stokes, Scott Galloway (6.8), Matthew Sutton, Stefan Colakovski, Taras Gomulka and Manuel Pucciarelli.

Substitutions

Melbourne City made 5 changes: M. Leckie for M. Tilio (74′), C. Jenkinson for S. Galloway (74′), C. Metcalfe for T. Gomulka (88′), A. Nabbout for S. Colakovski (88′) and F. Berenguer for M. Pucciarelli (90′).

Best player: Mathew Leckie​

The player that probably impressed the most for Melbourne City was Mathew Leckie.

His rating is (9.0) with 2 goals, 29 passes (58% accurate) and 0 key passes. He was won 16 duels out of 23.

Results of the day

These are the results of the day in the A-League.​

• Western Sydney Wanderers – Melbourne City – 1-3